Welcome to Wellness Sessions
Hi, nice to meet you on this wellness page. I am Anju, a Holistic Wellness Coach passionate about empowering you to rediscover balance and joy in life. Through my experience as a speaker, mentor, and coach, I support individuals in discovering their purpose, building confidence, and taking action toward their dreams.
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, seeking clarity, or seeking guidance in creating a fulfilling lifestyle, I’m here to support you every step. Explore the sessions below and let’s start your journey together. Check all upcoming workshops and events here.
Here if you want to know more about wellness consultancy and holistic approaches.
Wellness Coaching, Speaking, and Workshops
Book group sessions or one-on-one * For corporate and private clients.
Personal Development
Unfold, recreate, and refresh for full potential.
Coaching
Personal growth is a lifelong journey, and our program is designed to support you every step of the way. Whether you aim to boost your confidence, improve your skills, find a better work-life balance or you are recreating a new life with a different challenge and needs a different focus. Our personalised sessions will help you unlock doors you never thought existed.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Holistic Health
Learn and implement incredible benefits of nature's remedies.
Coaching & Courses
The principle of holistic health is that everyone has natural healing powers. The holistic approach means strengthening the overall well-being. This program helps you learn and implement incredible benefits from nature’s remedies, focusing on mind, body, and spirit. You’ll discover techniques to balance and rejuvenate your life. Holistic living starts with what we put on our plates because we truly are what we eat.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Ayurvedic Living
A brief Introduction and guide to enhance holistic living
Courses
Ayurvedic Living is a journey into holistic health and well-being. Discover ancient wisdom and modern applications to enhance your life. You will be surprised how easy it is to look after our minds and bodies with a few good changes. We believe what we eat and what we think creates our today so let’s renew your path with Ayurvedic living.
Your Program Includes:
- Anju’s abundance of wisdom from her ancestors tells you a secret of Ayurveda you won’t read in any book.
- Simple yet practical tips on what is available in New Zealand.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Mindful Living
Reducing stress & anxiety, improving focus, & heart health
Courses
Mindful Living is about reducing stress and enhancing well-being through mindfulness practices. Rooted in ancient traditions, mindfulness has been a trusted approach for nearly 5,000 years, long before modern medicine. In this session, we’ll explore how these practices can bring balance to your life. Remember, how we feel is often shaped by our mindset, and only we have the power to change it. Let’s talk and begin this transformative journey together.
Your Program Includes:
- Guided mindfulness sessions tailored for individuals and groups.
- Effective breathing, focus and gratitude practices
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Gratitude Journaling
Gratitude: The Habit That Transforms Lives
Workshop
Discover the power of gratitude journaling with Anju, who has embraced and preached it as a lifetime habit. This transformative practice helps you recognize the positive vibes in your life, reshaping your mindset and creating a ripple effect of well-being. In this workshop or one-on-one lessons, explore simple and effective ways to make gratitude a daily ritual and unlock its profound benefits for your mind, body, and soul.
Your Workshop Includes:
- A step-by-step guide to practising journeying.
- Have a tool to find the positive in every situation.Consciously choosing your thoughts and more.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
Create Action Board
Let's put together your desires & aspirations on a mood board.
Workshop
Bring your goals to life with our Create Action Board workshop. Some call them dream boards or mood boards. Whatever name is right for you, this workshop going to bring your dream into reality. We provide most of the materials you’ll need, including paper, magazines, and other creative supplies.
Your Workshop Includes:
- Guided session on creating a personalised action board
- Materials, and techniques to visualize and manifest your goals.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Renew Your Path
Building Resilience in Your Work-Life
Coaching & Courses
Resilience is key to thriving in today’s fast-paced world. This program offers practical strategies to manage stress, overcome challenges, and find balance. Learn techniques to build resilience and reduce stress.
Tailored for one-on-one goals or interactive group sessions, it focuses on building resilience and well-being.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Life Coaching
Empower you with revised approaches and new pathways.
Coaching
Our life coaching sessions empower you with new perspectives and pathways to achieve your personal and professional goals. This program offers guidance on overcoming obstacles, and emotions, focusing on your strengths, and boundaries and creating new awareness about your well-being. Together we’ll develop those strategies for you to embrace life.
Perfect For:
Individuals seeking personal growth, clarity, and direction in life. Ideal for those ready to break free from repetitive cycles and take actionable steps toward their goals.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Healing Spices
Healthy Mind and Body. Explore the Cure in your Pantry.
Courses
Discover the incredible health-boosting properties hidden in everyday spices. With a deep passion for Ayurveda and holistic living, Anju shares her wealth of knowledge about spices and their role in enhancing well-being. Learn how to craft powerful spice blends that not only add flavour but also nurture your body. From ancient wisdom to practical kitchen tips, you’ll find simple, affordable, and creative ways to make spices a delicious part of your daily life.
Your Program Includes:
- A simple spice blend to cure many little and big health issues in the long run.
- And our all-time famous, questions-answer session.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
21 Micro Habits
Small steps, big changes: Transform your life in 21 steps.
Courses
21 Micro Habits is designed to help you create small, impactful changes for a healthier, more productive life. Habits and routines are part of our lives, and by cultivating them into rituals, you can see immense effects. We embrace change wholeheartedly when we truly desire it, and it impacts us deeply when we commit to it fully. By adopting small habits, it’s a win-win for the mind, body, and soul.
Your Program Includes:
- List of micro habit lists that are suitable for your lifestyle.
- A simple and effective way to get into the right rituals without any pressure or big changes.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Benefits of Turmeric
How to use turmeric for your mind and body in everyday life.
Workshop
As we all know the golden magical spice turmeric is essential in our lives. However many of us are unsure how much turmeric we should take every day, how to have it, what to have it with and what may not work. For better outcomes of this king of spice, join our workshop. You will be amazed to see how easy it is to get this anti-inflammatory magic in your body. Good for your health, thinking ability and your skin.
Your Workshop Includes:
- Detailed information on turmeric’s health benefits
- Practical tips for incorporating turmeric into meals with few recipes.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here
Living with Ayurveda
Start your holistic journey with natural Indian home remedies.
Workshop
Ayurveda aims to balance our mental and physical state. Do you know yoga and meditation are part of it as well? It was invented thousands of years ago in India and meditation was a big medicine to heal people. Learn Ayurvedic principles in our workshop for improved health and balance.
Your Workshop Includes:
- Introduction to Ayurveda and its benefits
- Practical advice on diet, lifestyle, and self-care practices.
Perfect For:
- Individuals, corporate groups, private groups, and community centres, including libraries.
For more on Anju’s experience and expertise, read here.
Wellness FAQ
What are these wellness classes about? These wellness workshops are here to help someone find the path between where they are now and where they want to be. Changing micro habits and setting achievable goals with a few simple steps makes a big difference. These goals can be about business, health and wellbeing, career, relationships and work-life balance.
What is the experience of the teacher? Anju Desai brings a wealth of experience in holistic living and wellness. Growing up in an Ayurvedic household, she learned the importance of balanced living early on. Anju has overcome personal life crises with resilience, built numerous start-ups, and established a new life in a foreign country. She has delivered many inspirational speeches, empowering people to stand strong with devotion, self-respect, and confidence. Anju’s approach combines practical coaching with deep, meaningful connections to inspire personal growth and well-being. She strongly believes in journey, gratitude practice and manifestation.
How can these classes help with personal development? These sessions are designed to enhance your strengths, manage stress, and develop resilience through personalized coaching.
What sort of issues will the wellness workshops help me with? Resilience and well-being training can assist with stress, burnout, anxiety, and building confidence.
Are the wellness workshops customisable? Yes, we can tailor the workshops to suit your needs, including duration, topics, and group size.
Can I book a private session or group workshop? Yes, you can book private sessions or group workshops at your chosen location or we can provide venue options or organise online.
What should I bring to the wellness workshops? You don’t need to bring anything. We provide all necessary materials and resources for the sessions.
Email – wellness@anjudesai.co.nz
Book group sessions or one-on-one
For corporate and private clients.
Inspiring and Engaging Speeches
In addition to the topics above, I can also speak about Diwali, Hindu beliefs, arranged marriages, the history of India, Ayurveda, and simple living. Additionally, I cover subjects such as creating everyday rituals for a positive mind, manifestation, the importance of journaling, and gratitude practices.
Let’s talk – hello@anjudesai.co.nz
How I Can Help
Hi there!
It’s wonderful to connect with you here. As we become more aware of our mind-body-soul connection, we seek simple guidelines to understand holistic living. This involves mindful eating, daily mindfulness practices, and working on our manifestations. I was raised in an Ayurvedic holistic lifestyle and know how simplicity can create abundance for the soul and body. Let me help you change simple micro habits to create a soulful life.
With my passions for creativity, art, writing, coaching, and speaking, I’m excited to bring fresh and impressive ideas to your life. Let’s support our community together and bring the best out of them
Thank you for stopping by, and I look forward to catching up soon!
Anju Desai
What Our Clients Say
Hi Anju I saw you speak y’day at Her festival. Thank you for your story. As a single parent and survivor of domestic violence your story resonated very strongly with me. You have also inspired me to believe in the next chapters of life and that one can start afresh. I’m finally getting my strength and power back as an independent woman and your description of returning to your creativity and regaining your spirit and strength has stuck with me ever since your talk. Thank you so much. Your resilience humility honesty and self belief was intoxicating. You have given me a huge amount of faith that starting again isn’t a negative but a positive opportunity. Thank you so much xx Sarah
Sarah Hodgetts
I was very inspired by your sharings and have really thought about the best action to demonstrate to my children. To be the inspiration for them as we are their role models so they be empowered to have healthy relationships in the future
Thank you very much and hope more people will get inspired by your story and thought and morels. 
